If the George Zimmerman\/Trayvon Martin case demonstrated anything, it is the gross, and grotesque, double standards in race relations that exist in America.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, I published a piece at Front Page Magazine<\/i>, \u201cPaula Deen and the Fundamental Transformation of America,\u201d in which I relayed the unimaginably brutal fate that a young white couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, met six years ago in Knoxville, Tennessee at the hands of four black men and one black woman.\u00a0 I noted that the usual suspects in the Racism-Industrial-Complex who demanded Deen\u2019s head on a platter for having used a notorious racial epithet some 30 years ago or so have been utterly silent with respect to this atrocity.<\/p>\n
There is, though, another scandalously underreported instance of black-on-white cruelty that, with shocking clarity, illustrates the hypocrisy and cowardice of contemporary racial discourse.\u00a0 It occurred in Wichita, Kansas 13 years ago.\u00a0 It is with good reason that it has since been dubbed \u201cthe Wichita Massacre\u201d or \u201cthe Wichita Horror.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
On December 14, 2000, two black brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr broke into the home of three white men, Jason Befort, Bradley Heyka, and Aaron Sandler.\u00a0 Also at the home were two white women, Heather Muller and a woman who, for the purpose of her own privacy and protection, is now known only as \u201cH.G.\u201d The latter is the sole survivor of the evil to which the Carr brothers subjected her and her friends.<\/p>\n
Over a span of hours, the brothers Carr forced their victims to get naked and have sex with one another. According to an Accuracy in Media <\/i>report, when Sander \u201cfailed to perform\u201d sexually, he \u201cwas beaten with a golf club [.]\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet the Carrs also forced the two women to have sex with them. <\/i>Repeatedly, Muller and H.G. were raped, both vaginally and orally.<\/p>\n
The rapes, though, were interspersed with multiple robberies. At different times, Reginald Carr drove Heyka, Befort, and H.G., individually, to the bank where they were made to use their ATM cards to withdraw funds. The temperature that evening was at least 15 degrees below freezing, and yet the Carrs permitted H.G. to wear nothing but a sweater during her excursion to the bank.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t only the bank accounts of their victims that the Carr brothers depleted.\u00a0 According to the AIM <\/i>report, the Carrs \u201cransacked the house looking for money and valuables.\u201d Sadly, they \u201cfound the engagement ring that Befort had planned to give H.G. a week later.\u201d<\/p>\n
At around 2 A.M. the Carrs took their captives\u2014three of whom had been stuffed into the trunk of Sander\u2019s Honda Accord\u2014to a deserted field covered in snow. The men were stark naked while the women wore nothing other than a shirt.\u00a0 All five were made to kneel down. The Carrs then shot each one of them, execution-style, in the backs of their heads. Then, they rode over the bodies in one of the vehicles that they stole before leaving their victims to rot.<\/p>\n
The Carrs failed to realize that not all of their prey had died.\u00a0 AIM <\/i>states that H.G. took off her sweater to stop Jason Befort\u2019s bleeding. \u201c\u2018Blood was squirting everywhere,\u2019\u201d she later testified in court.\u00a0 It was even \u201c\u2019coming out of his eyes.\u2019\u201d Naked, raped, shot and left for dead, H.G. walked one mile<\/i> to a home where she implored strangers to help. Most tellingly, she would not let them call 911 until after she had told them all that happened that night.\u00a0 Thinking that she too would die, H.G. wanted to make sure that her grisly story was known. AIM <\/i>reports that \u201cthe couple listened in amazement at her courage and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n
H.G. is indeed courageous and determined. Thanks to her virtues the Carr brothers were convicted and sentenced to death (though, unfortunately, they haven\u2019t yet been executed).<\/p>\n
Had H.G. been black and her attackers been white, there isn\u2019t anyone in America who wouldn\u2019t know her name.\u00a0 More than one Lifetime <\/i>movie would\u2019ve been made about her and her friends.\u00a0 Oprah Winfrey would have interviewed her several times over.\u00a0 Along with that of Heather Muller, her name would already be in the annals of \u201cWomen\u2019s History.\u201d She would be a feminist\u2019s icon.\u00a0 The President, and most certainly the First Lady, would have given speeches singing her praises and reminding Americans that \u201cracism\u201d is still very much alive, etc.<\/p>\n
And the Carr brothers (deservingly) would be the most vilified men in the country.<\/p>\n
But H.G. and her four late friends were white and their assailants black.\u00a0 Thus, if they were ever noticed at all, they have long since been forgotten.<\/p>\n
In the spirit of that \u201chonest discussion of race\u201d that Eric Holder claims to want, we should acquaint and reacquaint ourselves with them.<\/p>\n
While we\u2019re at it, it is high time that we decry the outrageous racial double-standards on which the Racism-Industrial-Complex feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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